An on-line, business-oriented optimization of performance and availability for utility computing

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2013-2021

  Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a,b,c   Katircioglu, Kaan ^a,b,d,e   Surendra, Maheswaran ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d IBM   (United States)

^e Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

Author keywords

Optimal server allocation; Performability; Service level agreement (SLA)

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SERVER ALLOCATION; PERFORMABILITY; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA);

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MOBILE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644462956     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2005.854125     Document Type: Article

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